Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1268 Arrived in Surabaya
Surabaya is located on the Java Island in the south of Borneo. The west side of the island is Batavia, the most important stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East, and the east side of the island is Surabaya.

It used to be a desolate swamp named "Silimu", but after the Han people came here, they refined the name and changed it into the authentic Chinese name "Sishui".

This place originally belonged to the territory of the Danmu Sultanate, and later it belonged to the Bachang and Matalan Sultanates successively. However, after the Dutch arrived in Java Island, the Matalam Sultanate failed to attack the Netherlands several times, and gradually lost control of sea transportation. power, resulting in diminishing trade, production decline, national decline, and finally controlled by the Netherlands.

In this Minghe battle, the Matalan Sultanate also dispatched more than 5000 troops. As a result, none of them returned, and the national power declined even more. In fact, many areas were in a state of being unable to control.

Because Surabaya is far away from Batavia, the Dutch do not have strong control over it, so it was occupied by the Han people a long time ago, and it can even be said that it was a city established and developed by the Han people.

It used to be a swampy area with poor living conditions, and there were not many Han people. However, during the Ming and Qing wars, especially the Fujian Revolution, after the Qing army entered Fujian, a large number of Fujianese fled to Nanyang to escape the war. The party clan moved to Nanyang as a unit, and thousands of immigrants from Longxi County, Zhangzhou Prefecture came to the four continents.

China's patriarchal society has a characteristic. As long as the people in the clan have established a firm foothold outside and made a way out, many clan members and township parties will inevitably come to join them.

In Nanyang, in addition to the four continents, Han Chinese immigrants from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian are also spread all over Borneo, Java and Nanyang.

In history, the Han people founded the Nanyang state, including Chen Zuyi's Boni State, Zhang Lian's Feilong Kingdom, Lin Afeng's Panshilan Kingdom, and Liang Daoming who was elected as the king of Sanfo Qi. Lu Zili and others.

Survival is the first need of civilization, and civilization itself has the need to grow and expand, which is nature.

Homo sapiens came out of Africa, expanded like the Eurasian continent, wiped out several other races such as the Leanderthals, and then ruled the world.

Although China is in a relatively closed area, the expansion of the entire civilization has not stopped. It has expanded from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin and then to the Lingnan area.

The Ming Dynasty’s opening up of the Southwest and emigration to Liaodong is also a kind of expansion, but in fact, there are still people going to Nanyang. Get used to this ocean expansion.

In Western concepts, especially in the Marxist view of history, expansion, especially colonial expansion, is more derogatory than commendable. Judging from the current value of the West, this is a very sinful thing, and they really did nothing. good thing.

With a very greedy and ugly behavior, the western world broke the rules of the original world, and became the center of the world from the edge of the world.

After they became vested interests, they came to promote the current Western values. In fact, after Nurhachi rebelled and seized the Central Plains with blood and killings, the Manchu book "The Biography of Two Officials" satirized the traitors and downgraded loyalty, just to maintain their values. rule, and the West is only maintaining the rules of the world they have created.

The colonial expansion of the West is a bloody history, full of killings and plundering of resources, but China's expansion is different from the West. We are gentle colonization, which brings development and a better life to the local area.

Our civilization developed from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin. Although it was also accompanied by killing, the mainstream is construction. Wherever we go, we build. This point is still reflected today.

If statistics are to be used, the number of Han Chinese in Nanyang at this time is estimated to have exceeded one million, or even more.

After that, the Republic of Lanfang, which was founded in Borneo, had a population of about 110 million, most of whom were Han Chinese. In addition, in 1603 and 1639, the Spanish colonists successively carried out two massacres in Luzon. In 1662, the Spaniards carried out a third massacre, which can also prove that there are a large number of Han Chinese in Nanyang.

After the Dutch East India Company occupied Batavia, it wanted to build it into an oriental trade center that could stand shoulder to shoulder with Luzon and Macau, so as to replace the trade status of Portugal and Spain, the two declining empires, in the east.

The prosperity of Macau and Luzon is inseparable from the Ming people. Batavia was not only sparsely populated at the beginning, but also the laziness of the local indigenous people could not make it gradually prosperous.

In order to build Batavia, the authorities of the Dutch East India Company resorted to coercion and lure, kidnapped and recruited a large number of Ming people on the southeast coast, and gradually made Batavia prosperous.

It can be said that the Dutch were able to turn Batavia into the largest trading base of the East India Company in the Far East, mostly due to Ariake.

After the construction of Batavia was completed, the Ming people who were coerced and lured to come here, with the diligence of our nation, gradually mastered many assets of Batavia, and began to attract Ming people to come on their own initiative.

A large number of Ming people poured into Batavia, which changed the local social structure. There were more and more Ming people, and they became more and more out of control. In addition, the Ming Dynasty in the north became stronger and stronger. This made the East India Company unable to The anticipation made them deeply disturbed.

In this confrontation between Ming and He, the conflict between the Dutch colonial authorities and the local Ming people broke out in advance.

The massacre that would have happened later in history happened earlier because of the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands over trade and spheres of influence.

The Ming people in Java were affected. The natives of Mataram coveted the property of the Ming people and fished in troubled waters. The Ming people living near Batavia were affected, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries.

Although the Ming army wiped out the Dutch fleet in Malacca, the Dutch were still strong on the land of Java, especially their fortress in Batavia, which was more difficult to break than the fortress in Malacca.

When the Dutch built the fort, the Sultan of Matalan assembled tens of thousands of troops and attacked Batavia twice, but both ended in failure.

At this time, there were still more than 3000 Dutch in Java. After Malacca was surrounded by the Ming army and the East India Company fleet was trapped in the port, they worried that the Ming army would attack Batavia, so they began to intensify their persecution of the Han people. their assets, and forced them to fortify their forts.

The Ming army originally thought that the main force of the Dutch had been surrounded in Malacca, so they only sent naval forces to collect Java. However, the naval forces had no way of attacking the Dutch fortress, so they only rescued a small number of Han Chinese outside the fortress. Entering Surabaya, establishing a temporary port, and confronting the Dutch on the island of Java, many Han Chinese from the west of Java fled to Surabaya one after another.

In fact, merchants in the Ming Dynasty have long coveted Java because it produces spices and is a famous spice island. It can also grow tobacco and sugar cane, but it has been controlled by the Dutch for a long time.

Immediately after the Ming army established a temporary port in Surabaya, merchants from Guangnan came here to transport grain and medicinal materials to help the Ming army stabilize their position. Then they sailed eastward to the spice-producing islands, bought local spices, and then returned to Daming. .

Ming Dynasty merchants could not come to these places before, but now that the Ming army has arrived here, [-]% of the Dutch fleet in the Far East has been lost, and the original Dutch sphere of influence no longer exists.

However, the Ming army established a port in Surabaya, and a large number of Ming people went to Surabaya, which also caused panic among the Dutch. The governor of Batavia threatened that the Ming Dynasty would retaliate against the Matalan Sultanate and instigated the Matalan Sultanate to gather The soldiers were ready to take back Surabaya.

Such a behemoth of the Ming Dynasty established a stronghold in Surabaya, which indeed made the Sultan of Mata Lan feel frightened.

This makes it easy for them to recall that hundreds of years ago, when Java was still under the rule of Majapahit, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, once lost Shi Bi and Yihei and happily led the navy to attack Java, but was defeated by the king of Majapahit. Tarayasa beat.

Matalan is already very afraid of the Dutch occupying Batavia. If the Ming Dynasty establishes a stronghold in Surabaya, Java will inevitably be divided by Minghe. Late I could only gather some troops to try to drive away the Ming army, but several attacks ended in failure, and Ma Dalan's army could only retreat to a low level.

On April 29, Li Dingguo, who had been wandering at sea for half a month, led two battalions of land divisions to the Surabaya camp.

As soon as Li Dingguo got off the boat, he met Yu Fangqi and his party who came to greet him.

"Commander, did the Dutch in Malacca surrender?" Yu Fangqi asked.

"Surrender, after seven months of siege, the food was exhausted before they surrendered! This group of Heyi are all desperadoes, with a firm will, and they are more difficult to deal with than the Manqing!"

Li Dingguo didn't want to mention the matter of Malacca, and it took seven months to lay it down. His face was not bright, so he changed the subject and asked, "How is the situation on your side?"

Yu Fangqi smiled wryly, "We originally wanted to take down Batavia first, and after finishing off the red-haired ghosts, we would go north to join the Luzon navy and fight against the Spaniards, but we didn't expect that the red-haired ghosts in Batavia would still have a few Thousands of people, so we stayed in Surabaya."

Li Dingguo frowned, "So, neither Luzon nor here has made any progress."

"Exactly, there are frequent storms at sea nowadays, and the Spaniards occupy a small island country. We don't have a place to park our boats. Once we encounter a storm, it will be very troublesome. Therefore, we will manage Surabaya for the time being and prepare to cooperate with the brothers of Master Lu. , Defeat the Dutch in Java first!"

Li Dingguo nodded, "The commander only brought 6000 people, and we really need the cooperation of the navy. Let's go, let's find a place to explain in detail..."

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